MIA WASIKOWSKA

Mia Wasikowska was born and raised in Australia. At the age of nine she was training as a ballerina but gave that up at 14 due to increasing pressure to achieve physical perfection and her growing dissatisfaction with the industry in general. She is quoted as saying “Dance is about [the] minute things that most people don’t notice but that dancers are trained to see and spend hours obsessing over in front of the mirror. Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty [and] that type of pressure breeds insecurities.” However, she credits ballet with improving her ability to handle her nerves in auditions: “I’d be a very different person if I didn’t have ballet as my background. Dance really toughens you up.”

Her first acting role was a two-episode stint on an Australian soap opera called All Saints. After that came her first movie role in the Australian film Suburban Mayhem. She was in the horror film Rogue, which also starred Radha Mitchell and Sam Worthington, and the drama September. She starred in the short film I Love Sarah Jane, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Mia’s first break in the United States came with HBO‘s series In Treatment, she played Sophie, a suicidal gymnast.

Last year, 2011, Mia shot a supporting role in John Hillcoat’s Prohibition-era drama Lawless a film set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits. Mia plays the love interest of Shia LaBeouf (also stars Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Dane DeHaan, Jason Clarke, Noah Taylor). She also filmed the lead, India Stoker, in Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut, Stoker, a film about a teenage girl mourning the death of her father who deals with an uncle that mysteriously shows up to meet the family (also starring Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Goode). Both films will be released sometime this year, 2012. Other films this year that she will be making are Jim Jarmusch’s vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive (starring Tilda Swinton, John Hurt and Tom Hiddleston) and Sophie Barthes’s film adaptation of Madame Bovary.

Mia Wasikowska Tidbits:

-Her mom is a Polish-born photographer, and her her father, John Reid, is an Australian photographer.

-She has an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai.

-She will make her directorial debut on a segment of a film adaptation of The Turning, a collection of short stories by Australian author Tim Winton.

-She appears in Miu Miu’s spring 2012 fashion campaign.

-She tied with Alice in Wonderland (2010) co-star Johnny Depp as the second highest-grossing actor of 2010, behind Leonardo DiCaprio.

About lisa

Welcome to Natures Joy NY Clippings & Pinups! I have been selling online since 1998. Check out my feedback on eBay if you'd like. I sell at eBay under the name of "naturesjoy". Please browse my store and enjoy your stay! I have been collecting magazines for years and have thousands of Clippings & Pinups to list and will be adding more weekly. Feel free to ask/email me if you do not see the celebrity you are looking for! Thanks for dropping by!